Smith v. Louis Berkman Co.

How courts have described this case

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• Boyle defense inapplicable where defendant met state bid specifications for design and sale of salt- spreader machine for State DOT, with no federal involvement
• “The result is the same under KRS 411.320(1), which mirrors 411.320(2) but applies more broadly to alterations to the product made by any person or entity.”
• “KRS 411.320 indicates the Kentucky legislature’s intent to benefit product manufacturers by precluding their tort liability when their products are modified or altered by someone else.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).